What the corpus says about Halloween (1978)

The 60 lines php artisan corpus:ask hands a model, in the order it gets them, and nothing else. The model writes a clerk's answer from these and only these.

What was said about it (23)

[The Rewatchables · ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ · 1:31:20 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ⇒ Halloween (the host's read) · programming · Bill pairs it with Halloween to compare how much Halloween cribbed from Chainsaw. · "I went Halloween just to compare and contrast like how much Halloween, crib done, chainsaw, all that stuff."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · 0:17:45 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Halloween ⇒ Friday the 13th (the host's read) · lineage · Friday the 13th was an openly shameless Halloween ripoff, built on Halloween's success. · "We have to talk about how this was the most unabashed ripoff movie probably of all time."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · 0:47:25 · unknown (0.30)] Friday the 13th ↔ Halloween · lineage · Crazy Ralph, the outsider who is right about the danger, is compared to Donald Pleasence in Halloween. · "Do you consider Donald Pleasance that in Halloween?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ · 0:03:01 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ⇒ Halloween (the host's read) · lineage · Halloween felt like it invented modern horror, but on rewatch Chainsaw is the real ground zero. · "whenever I watch Chainsaw, I'm like, no, actually this is ground zero."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 0:05:23 · David Sims (0.40)] Blue Steel ↔ Halloween · lineage · Calls Blue Steel a slasher with Ron Silver as Michael Myers and cites Ebert calling it the best Halloween sequel. · "I read back to Roger Ebert's review, and he said, this is actually the best Halloween sequel that's ever been made."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · 0:06:20 · unknown (0.30)] Friday the 13th ↔ Halloween · theme · The holiday-dread gimmick (Halloween, Friday the 13th) was seen as a repeatable hook; other date horror films failed to pay off the premise. · "Didn't work with some other versions of it."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · 0:11:20 · unknown (0.30)] Friday the 13th ↔ Halloween · theme · Jason as unkillable mindless villain is likened to Thanos; Jason is a franchise villain the way Myers and Freddy are. · "Jason becomes this mindless, almost like super villain, like Thanos"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ · 0:44:34 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ↔ Halloween · craft · Chainsaw's last shot is an all-time ending, rivaled only by Halloween's empty Myers shots; Chainsaw is judged better. · "It's an all-time greatest last shot other than possibly Halloween, Myers not being there at the end."
[The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ · 0:43:42 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] After Hours ↔ Halloween · craft · Bill compares the interrupted never-finished story to Loomis and the undertaker in Halloween. · "Loomis is looking for Myris's grave, and the undertaker is telling this long story."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · 0:28:14 · unknown (0.30)] Friday the 13th ↔ Halloween · contrast · Myers has no motive; Friday has a revenge motive from the drowned boy. · "It's just the lights are on and nobody's home with this dude."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · 0:42:31 · unknown (0.30)] Friday the 13th ↔ Halloween · contrast · Alice's closing fight is compared with Jamie Lee Curtis dropping the knife, the genre's worst mistake. · "I mean, the worst ever was Jamie Lee Curtis, the Halloween one."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 1:29:35 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Panic Room ↔ Halloween · contrast · Michael Myers energy joke: Foster gets up fresh after falling down two flights of stairs. · "So Michael Myers energy going on there."
[The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · 0:07:39 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma ↔ Halloween · contrast · It could sit between Scary Movie and Halloween in theory but generates a different feeling. · "In theory this movie lives in between those two, but it doesn't at all."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · 0:59:36 · unknown (0.30)] Friday the 13th ↔ Halloween · verdict · Manfredini's score is nearly as good as Halloween's piano theme, which wins gold with this as silver. · "No, he the Halloween wins the gold for like..."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · 0:18:32 · unknown (0.30)] Friday the 13th ↔ Halloween · industry · Cunningham gets credit for seeing the repeatability of the gimmick and committing to a movie a year. · "He gets credit, I think, for realizing the repeatability of the gimmick, right?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · 0:19:04 · unknown (0.30)] Friday the 13th ↔ Halloween · industry · Both original films were meant to be one-offs; the sequel idea was an anthology of scary dates before Jason took over. · "what they had thought was maybe we could make this like an anthology"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining · 0:04:26 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Halloween ↔ The Shining · industry · The Shining arrives two years after Halloween rewrote the rules of killing everyone. · "But yeah, this movie is 2 years after Halloween"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 0:05:21 · unknown (0.30)] Ron Silver ↔ Halloween · lineage · Ron Silver's killer becomes Michael Myers by the end. · "Ron Silver becomes Michael Myers by the end."
[The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · 1:01:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] John Carpenter ↔ Halloween · people · Carpenter told the speaker he did not know what a 'final girl' was, until told it came from a Carol Clover essay. · "I don't know what that is."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ · 1:14:19 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Marilyn Burns ↔ Halloween · verdict · Lori Strode is the more iconic final girl by body of work, and Ripley is up there; Sally is the underrated one. · "I think Lori's a more iconic final girl, ultimately."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · 0:17:50 · unknown (0.35)] Halloween ⇒ Sean S. Cunningham (the host's read) · industry · Cunningham saw Halloween succeed, took out a trade ad for a non-existent movie, and found his funding. · "The producer, Sean Cunningham, saw Halloween was successful, came up with this idea, put an ad in variety"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ · 0:09:34 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] Gunnar Hansen ↔ Halloween · no backstory · Leatherface is favored over Myers and Jason because he gets no origin story and is at once realistic and inexplicable. · "he's at once the most realistic and human, but is also the least explicable"
[The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · 0:46:38 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Halloween ↔ Carol Clover · theory · Laurie Strode is the signature final girl of Clover's tradition. · "and Lori Strode being the signature."

Films put beside it more than once (2)

[pairs] Halloween ↔ Friday the 13th · said 9 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Halloween ↔ The Texas Chain Saw Massacre · said 3 times in 1 episode

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (27)

[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · 0:36:05 · unknown (0.30)] Friday the 13th ↔ Friday the 13th Part 2 · programming · Parts 2 and 3 open with the final minutes of the previous film to deliver an early kill. · "the sequels, especially 2 and 3, open with the last 10 minutes of the previous movie to get a killing."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ · 1:30:52 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ↔ The Last House on the Left · programming · Chris picks Last House on the Left for a double feature as an equally disturbing snapshot of movie history. · "I'll probably go last house on the left, although it is equally disturbing"
[Blank Check · After Hours · 2:18:42 · unknown host (0.35)] After Hours ↔ Dallas Buyers Club · programming · Dallas Buyers Club would pair with After Hours as an AIDS-era double feature. · "It'd be a great double feature with after hours."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 1:24:23 · unknown (0.40)] Blue Steel ↔ Zoolander · programming · Zoolander's Blue Steel ruined the title of Bigelow's film. · "It is weird now that like this movie's title is totally ruined by Zoolander."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:29:37 · Bill Simmons (0.55)] Panic Room ↔ Bird Box · programming · Home-invasion and people-in-peril movies are what Netflix feeds viewers; Panic Room is the well-done version. · "But I think this is the really well-done version of it."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · 1:30:35 · unknown (0.30)] Friday the 13th ↔ Meatballs · programming · Summer-camp movies and Halloween ripoffs are named as categories Friday belongs to. · "Halloween ripoff movies, this definitely."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ · 1:31:17 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ↔ Deliverance · programming · A guest pick for a double bill: road trip gone wrong. · "Oh, my God. Road trip gone wrong."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 3:12:46 · unknown (0.40)] Yellowbeard ↔ After Hours · programming · Cheech and Chong in Yellowbeard and After Hours are reserved for future Mel Damski and Scorsese series. · "we'd want to save that for Martin Scorsese and Mel Damski series."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 1:26:39 · unknown (0.40)] Blue Steel ↔ The Hunt for Red October · programming · The weekend Blue Steel opened, The Hunt for Red October was number one. · "It's a huge box on October, right? For Red October."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:40:17 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Panic Room ↔ The Social Network · programming · Fincher movies are rewatchable and date-movie friendly, with the exception of Se7en; Social Network is the perfect date movie. · "Like social network, perfect date movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · 1:40:21 · unknown (0.35)] Friday the 13th ↔ A Nightmare on Elm Street · programming · Double-feature pick: Nightmare on Elm Street 2, called a nice bookend for this one. · "I went Nightmare on Elm Street too, which is an underrated nightmare on Elm Street."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · 0:46:48 · unknown (0.30)] The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ⇒ Friday the 13th (the host's read) · lineage · Friday borrowed the seemingly friendly helper who turns out hostile and the killer who keeps getting back up. · "a seemingly friendly helper who ends up being not friendly, the Texas chainsaw move."
[The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ · 1:14:08 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] After Hours ↔ Pee-wee's Big Adventure · programming · Tim Burton left After Hours the same year he made Pee-wee; both are about a manchild in a strange world finding salvation going home. · "about a manchild, thrust into a world he doesn't understand, seeking something he can't get, and eventually finding salvation by going back home."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 1:28:23 · Jordan Hoffman (0.40)] Blue Steel ↔ Joe Versus the Volcano · programming · Number two that weekend was Joe Versus the Volcano, a critical bomb for Tom Hanks. · "Oh, Joe versus the volcano?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 1:33:06 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Panic Room ↔ Succession · programming · As a ten-episode Netflix show, Junior would be Roman from Succession. · "but it's just that, um, Junior is Roman from Succession."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · 1:43:55 · unknown (0.30)] Friday the 13th ↔ Friday the 13th · programming · Because it was available on multiple streaming services, Friday lived on in a way Hellraiser and Leprechaun did not. · "Friday, probably because of its availability on like multiple streaming services, I think, has just kind of lived on."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · 0:47:50 · unknown (0.30)] Friday the 13th ↔ The Texas Chain Saw Massacre · lineage · The cemetery-warning figure at the start of Chain Saw parallels Ralph. · "The guy in the beginning at the cemetery at Texas Chainsaw Massacre, he kind of warns everybody of what's to come."
[The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ · 1:31:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] After Hours ↔ Bright Lights, Big City · programming · Bright Lights, Big City is a big one from this era that nobody talks about. · "Bright Lights Big City is a big one from this era too."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 1:29:17 · unknown (0.40)] Blue Steel ↔ Lord of the Flies · programming · Number three that weekend was the 1990 Lord of the Flies. · "The 1990 Lord of the Flies."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:16:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Panic Room ↔ Rope · lineage · One-location construction recalls the Hitchcock single-setting movies. · "So it has shades of rope or lifeboat, those movies that Hitchcock made."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · 0:03:47 · unknown (0.40)] Friday the 13th ⇒ Friday the 13th Part 2 (the host's read) · lineage · Part 2 essentially redoes the first film with a better bad guy and a little more money. · "I think the 2nd one almost stands in as like, let's redo the 1st one, but make the bad guy even better."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ · 0:03:15 · Chris Ryan (0.55)] Night of the Living Dead ⇒ The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (the host's read) · lineage · Hooper saw the line down the block for Night of the Living Dead and decided to make a horror film with his own ideas about Vietnam-era America. · "Toby Hooper, who directed Chainsaw Massacre, went and saw Night of the Living Dead."
[The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ · 1:40:40 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] After Hours ↔ Bringing Out the Dead · programming · Another nighttime Scorsese movie. · "Another nighttime Scorsese movie bringing out the dead."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 1:30:22 · unknown (0.40)] Blue Steel ↔ House Party · programming · Number four that weekend was House Party. · "Oh, house party. house party."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:16:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Panic Room ↔ Lifeboat · lineage · One-location construction recalls the Hitchcock single-setting movies. · "So it has shades of rope or lifeboat, those movies that Hitchcock made."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · 0:11:58 · unknown (0.30)] Meatballs ⇒ Friday the 13th (the host's read) · lineage · Meatballs was as much an influence on the camp setting and look as Halloween was. · "I think carrying meatballs were equally influential as Halloween is on this."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ · 0:17:18 · Chris Ryan (0.45)] Ed Gein ⇒ The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (the host's read) · lineage · The film was a little influenced by Ed Gein, whose skin masks and grave digging fascinated Hollywood. · "it was a little influenced by the great Ed Geen."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (5)

[speaker] Bill Simmons · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · Loves the Friday series as a communal, rental-era memory and tells childhood stories about the ads and theaters. Likes casting what-ifs and sports analogies for everything. Skeptical of horror at Christmas and of anything that wastes the premise. · stances: Friday the 13th is not the best entry but the origin story had to be told; Friday 2 is a leap over the original
[speaker] Sean Fennessey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · Loves gory, funny, fast genre movies with craft and confidence, especially 87-minute films that never overstay. Can't stand ponderous elevated horror that fills out its runtime with introspection and sad family history. A sucker for the Carpenter-era lineage, Die Hard homages, and directors who break studio dogma. · stances: Resident Evil is one of the best films of the year; Horror movies have become a drag; fun genre experiences are needed; Short running times are a virtue; Video-game films work best when great filmmakers get creative license
[speaker] Chris Ryan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · A franchise and genre scholar who likes Jason, the early sequels, and Manhattan; attention to trivia, tropes and critic reception. Treats slashers as a canon with tiers. · stances: Parts 1, 2, 4 and Manhattan are the good ones; The series finds its legs at 4
[speaker] David Sims · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Prepares history: novel, casting, budgets, box office. Reveres the film and thinks it reads as a normal ground-level story. A sucker for Hollywood deal backstory and box office game. · stances: Praises Keitel and Dafoe casting; Respects Scorsese's persistence and Corman discipline; The film is now well regarded though not 'canonical Marty'
[speaker] Griffin Newman · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Calls Last Temptation his college-era favorite Scorsese; loves Scorsese's smaller 80s and the film's closing transcendence and Gabriel score. Cannot stand fundamentalist outrage at it. A sucker for casting trivia and Tom Cruise-silliness. · stances: Hot take: Last Temptation structurally mirrors New York, New York as a better version; Outrage over the film is stupid; it is respectful to Jesus; Scorsese's smaller 80s work beats his later baroque phases

The shows' running bits (3)

[bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)
[bits] Blank Check: The box office game (Guessing the film's opening weekend and what it was up against); The sung theme ("Blank Check with Griffin and David", sung; the transcriber garbles it)
[bits] The Rewatchables: Apex Mountain (The moment a star peaks; where on the mountain a performance sits); Who Won the Movie (The hosts name the person who came out of the film best off); The Ebert review (Roger Ebert's original review and star rating read aloud. Ebert is cited, never on the show); Casting what-ifs (Who was almost cast, or who should have been); Most rewatchable scene (The scene each host would stop on while flipping channels); Aged best / aged worst (What holds up and what does not); Picking Nits (The little things in a film the hosts love that they don't think totally work: the nits); Double feature (The film each host would pair it with; a programming pick)

The whole prompt

As the model gets it, from app/Ai/Prompts/CorpusAsk.md

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Halloween (1978) and wants to know what to watch next.

Below is what people who love movies said on three podcasts (Blank Check, The Rewatchables, The Big Picture) about Halloween (1978) and the films around it, one line each. Every line starts with where it came from, in brackets: [show · episode · time · speaker (how sure we are it was them)]. A [pairs] line says how often two films were put side by side. A [speaker] line says what that person likes. A [bits] line lists a show's running bits: a format, not an opinion.

[The Rewatchables · ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ · 1:31:20 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ⇒ Halloween (the host's read) · programming · Bill pairs it with Halloween to compare how much Halloween cribbed from Chainsaw. · "I went Halloween just to compare and contrast like how much Halloween, crib done, chainsaw, all that stuff."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · 0:17:45 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Halloween ⇒ Friday the 13th (the host's read) · lineage · Friday the 13th was an openly shameless Halloween ripoff, built on Halloween's success. · "We have to talk about how this was the most unabashed ripoff movie probably of all time."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · 0:47:25 · unknown (0.30)] Friday the 13th ↔ Halloween · lineage · Crazy Ralph, the outsider who is right about the danger, is compared to Donald Pleasence in Halloween. · "Do you consider Donald Pleasance that in Halloween?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ · 0:03:01 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ⇒ Halloween (the host's read) · lineage · Halloween felt like it invented modern horror, but on rewatch Chainsaw is the real ground zero. · "whenever I watch Chainsaw, I'm like, no, actually this is ground zero."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 0:05:23 · David Sims (0.40)] Blue Steel ↔ Halloween · lineage · Calls Blue Steel a slasher with Ron Silver as Michael Myers and cites Ebert calling it the best Halloween sequel. · "I read back to Roger Ebert's review, and he said, this is actually the best Halloween sequel that's ever been made."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · 0:06:20 · unknown (0.30)] Friday the 13th ↔ Halloween · theme · The holiday-dread gimmick (Halloween, Friday the 13th) was seen as a repeatable hook; other date horror films failed to pay off the premise. · "Didn't work with some other versions of it."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · 0:11:20 · unknown (0.30)] Friday the 13th ↔ Halloween · theme · Jason as unkillable mindless villain is likened to Thanos; Jason is a franchise villain the way Myers and Freddy are. · "Jason becomes this mindless, almost like super villain, like Thanos"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ · 0:44:34 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ↔ Halloween · craft · Chainsaw's last shot is an all-time ending, rivaled only by Halloween's empty Myers shots; Chainsaw is judged better. · "It's an all-time greatest last shot other than possibly Halloween, Myers not being there at the end."
[The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ · 0:43:42 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] After Hours ↔ Halloween · craft · Bill compares the interrupted never-finished story to Loomis and the undertaker in Halloween. · "Loomis is looking for Myris's grave, and the undertaker is telling this long story."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · 0:28:14 · unknown (0.30)] Friday the 13th ↔ Halloween · contrast · Myers has no motive; Friday has a revenge motive from the drowned boy. · "It's just the lights are on and nobody's home with this dude."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · 0:42:31 · unknown (0.30)] Friday the 13th ↔ Halloween · contrast · Alice's closing fight is compared with Jamie Lee Curtis dropping the knife, the genre's worst mistake. · "I mean, the worst ever was Jamie Lee Curtis, the Halloween one."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 1:29:35 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Panic Room ↔ Halloween · contrast · Michael Myers energy joke: Foster gets up fresh after falling down two flights of stairs. · "So Michael Myers energy going on there."
[The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · 0:07:39 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma ↔ Halloween · contrast · It could sit between Scary Movie and Halloween in theory but generates a different feeling. · "In theory this movie lives in between those two, but it doesn't at all."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · 0:59:36 · unknown (0.30)] Friday the 13th ↔ Halloween · verdict · Manfredini's score is nearly as good as Halloween's piano theme, which wins gold with this as silver. · "No, he the Halloween wins the gold for like..."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · 0:18:32 · unknown (0.30)] Friday the 13th ↔ Halloween · industry · Cunningham gets credit for seeing the repeatability of the gimmick and committing to a movie a year. · "He gets credit, I think, for realizing the repeatability of the gimmick, right?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · 0:19:04 · unknown (0.30)] Friday the 13th ↔ Halloween · industry · Both original films were meant to be one-offs; the sequel idea was an anthology of scary dates before Jason took over. · "what they had thought was maybe we could make this like an anthology"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining · 0:04:26 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Halloween ↔ The Shining · industry · The Shining arrives two years after Halloween rewrote the rules of killing everyone. · "But yeah, this movie is 2 years after Halloween"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 0:05:21 · unknown (0.30)] Ron Silver ↔ Halloween · lineage · Ron Silver's killer becomes Michael Myers by the end. · "Ron Silver becomes Michael Myers by the end."
[The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · 1:01:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] John Carpenter ↔ Halloween · people · Carpenter told the speaker he did not know what a 'final girl' was, until told it came from a Carol Clover essay. · "I don't know what that is."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ · 1:14:19 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Marilyn Burns ↔ Halloween · verdict · Lori Strode is the more iconic final girl by body of work, and Ripley is up there; Sally is the underrated one. · "I think Lori's a more iconic final girl, ultimately."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · 0:17:50 · unknown (0.35)] Halloween ⇒ Sean S. Cunningham (the host's read) · industry · Cunningham saw Halloween succeed, took out a trade ad for a non-existent movie, and found his funding. · "The producer, Sean Cunningham, saw Halloween was successful, came up with this idea, put an ad in variety"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ · 0:09:34 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] Gunnar Hansen ↔ Halloween · no backstory · Leatherface is favored over Myers and Jason because he gets no origin story and is at once realistic and inexplicable. · "he's at once the most realistic and human, but is also the least explicable"
[The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · 0:46:38 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Halloween ↔ Carol Clover · theory · Laurie Strode is the signature final girl of Clover's tradition. · "and Lori Strode being the signature."
[pairs] Halloween ↔ Friday the 13th · said 9 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Halloween ↔ The Texas Chain Saw Massacre · said 3 times in 1 episode
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · 0:36:05 · unknown (0.30)] Friday the 13th ↔ Friday the 13th Part 2 · programming · Parts 2 and 3 open with the final minutes of the previous film to deliver an early kill. · "the sequels, especially 2 and 3, open with the last 10 minutes of the previous movie to get a killing."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ · 1:30:52 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ↔ The Last House on the Left · programming · Chris picks Last House on the Left for a double feature as an equally disturbing snapshot of movie history. · "I'll probably go last house on the left, although it is equally disturbing"
[Blank Check · After Hours · 2:18:42 · unknown host (0.35)] After Hours ↔ Dallas Buyers Club · programming · Dallas Buyers Club would pair with After Hours as an AIDS-era double feature. · "It'd be a great double feature with after hours."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 1:24:23 · unknown (0.40)] Blue Steel ↔ Zoolander · programming · Zoolander's Blue Steel ruined the title of Bigelow's film. · "It is weird now that like this movie's title is totally ruined by Zoolander."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:29:37 · Bill Simmons (0.55)] Panic Room ↔ Bird Box · programming · Home-invasion and people-in-peril movies are what Netflix feeds viewers; Panic Room is the well-done version. · "But I think this is the really well-done version of it."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · 1:30:35 · unknown (0.30)] Friday the 13th ↔ Meatballs · programming · Summer-camp movies and Halloween ripoffs are named as categories Friday belongs to. · "Halloween ripoff movies, this definitely."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ · 1:31:17 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ↔ Deliverance · programming · A guest pick for a double bill: road trip gone wrong. · "Oh, my God. Road trip gone wrong."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 3:12:46 · unknown (0.40)] Yellowbeard ↔ After Hours · programming · Cheech and Chong in Yellowbeard and After Hours are reserved for future Mel Damski and Scorsese series. · "we'd want to save that for Martin Scorsese and Mel Damski series."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 1:26:39 · unknown (0.40)] Blue Steel ↔ The Hunt for Red October · programming · The weekend Blue Steel opened, The Hunt for Red October was number one. · "It's a huge box on October, right? For Red October."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:40:17 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Panic Room ↔ The Social Network · programming · Fincher movies are rewatchable and date-movie friendly, with the exception of Se7en; Social Network is the perfect date movie. · "Like social network, perfect date movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · 1:40:21 · unknown (0.35)] Friday the 13th ↔ A Nightmare on Elm Street · programming · Double-feature pick: Nightmare on Elm Street 2, called a nice bookend for this one. · "I went Nightmare on Elm Street too, which is an underrated nightmare on Elm Street."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · 0:46:48 · unknown (0.30)] The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ⇒ Friday the 13th (the host's read) · lineage · Friday borrowed the seemingly friendly helper who turns out hostile and the killer who keeps getting back up. · "a seemingly friendly helper who ends up being not friendly, the Texas chainsaw move."
[The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ · 1:14:08 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] After Hours ↔ Pee-wee's Big Adventure · programming · Tim Burton left After Hours the same year he made Pee-wee; both are about a manchild in a strange world finding salvation going home. · "about a manchild, thrust into a world he doesn't understand, seeking something he can't get, and eventually finding salvation by going back home."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 1:28:23 · Jordan Hoffman (0.40)] Blue Steel ↔ Joe Versus the Volcano · programming · Number two that weekend was Joe Versus the Volcano, a critical bomb for Tom Hanks. · "Oh, Joe versus the volcano?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 1:33:06 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Panic Room ↔ Succession · programming · As a ten-episode Netflix show, Junior would be Roman from Succession. · "but it's just that, um, Junior is Roman from Succession."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · 1:43:55 · unknown (0.30)] Friday the 13th ↔ Friday the 13th · programming · Because it was available on multiple streaming services, Friday lived on in a way Hellraiser and Leprechaun did not. · "Friday, probably because of its availability on like multiple streaming services, I think, has just kind of lived on."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · 0:47:50 · unknown (0.30)] Friday the 13th ↔ The Texas Chain Saw Massacre · lineage · The cemetery-warning figure at the start of Chain Saw parallels Ralph. · "The guy in the beginning at the cemetery at Texas Chainsaw Massacre, he kind of warns everybody of what's to come."
[The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ · 1:31:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] After Hours ↔ Bright Lights, Big City · programming · Bright Lights, Big City is a big one from this era that nobody talks about. · "Bright Lights Big City is a big one from this era too."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 1:29:17 · unknown (0.40)] Blue Steel ↔ Lord of the Flies · programming · Number three that weekend was the 1990 Lord of the Flies. · "The 1990 Lord of the Flies."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:16:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Panic Room ↔ Rope · lineage · One-location construction recalls the Hitchcock single-setting movies. · "So it has shades of rope or lifeboat, those movies that Hitchcock made."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · 0:03:47 · unknown (0.40)] Friday the 13th ⇒ Friday the 13th Part 2 (the host's read) · lineage · Part 2 essentially redoes the first film with a better bad guy and a little more money. · "I think the 2nd one almost stands in as like, let's redo the 1st one, but make the bad guy even better."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ · 0:03:15 · Chris Ryan (0.55)] Night of the Living Dead ⇒ The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (the host's read) · lineage · Hooper saw the line down the block for Night of the Living Dead and decided to make a horror film with his own ideas about Vietnam-era America. · "Toby Hooper, who directed Chainsaw Massacre, went and saw Night of the Living Dead."
[The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ · 1:40:40 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] After Hours ↔ Bringing Out the Dead · programming · Another nighttime Scorsese movie. · "Another nighttime Scorsese movie bringing out the dead."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 1:30:22 · unknown (0.40)] Blue Steel ↔ House Party · programming · Number four that weekend was House Party. · "Oh, house party. house party."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:16:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Panic Room ↔ Lifeboat · lineage · One-location construction recalls the Hitchcock single-setting movies. · "So it has shades of rope or lifeboat, those movies that Hitchcock made."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · 0:11:58 · unknown (0.30)] Meatballs ⇒ Friday the 13th (the host's read) · lineage · Meatballs was as much an influence on the camp setting and look as Halloween was. · "I think carrying meatballs were equally influential as Halloween is on this."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ · 0:17:18 · Chris Ryan (0.45)] Ed Gein ⇒ The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (the host's read) · lineage · The film was a little influenced by Ed Gein, whose skin masks and grave digging fascinated Hollywood. · "it was a little influenced by the great Ed Geen."
[speaker] Bill Simmons · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · Loves the Friday series as a communal, rental-era memory and tells childhood stories about the ads and theaters. Likes casting what-ifs and sports analogies for everything. Skeptical of horror at Christmas and of anything that wastes the premise. · stances: Friday the 13th is not the best entry but the origin story had to be told; Friday 2 is a leap over the original
[speaker] Sean Fennessey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · Loves gory, funny, fast genre movies with craft and confidence, especially 87-minute films that never overstay. Can't stand ponderous elevated horror that fills out its runtime with introspection and sad family history. A sucker for the Carpenter-era lineage, Die Hard homages, and directors who break studio dogma. · stances: Resident Evil is one of the best films of the year; Horror movies have become a drag; fun genre experiences are needed; Short running times are a virtue; Video-game films work best when great filmmakers get creative license
[speaker] Chris Ryan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · A franchise and genre scholar who likes Jason, the early sequels, and Manhattan; attention to trivia, tropes and critic reception. Treats slashers as a canon with tiers. · stances: Parts 1, 2, 4 and Manhattan are the good ones; The series finds its legs at 4
[speaker] David Sims · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Prepares history: novel, casting, budgets, box office. Reveres the film and thinks it reads as a normal ground-level story. A sucker for Hollywood deal backstory and box office game. · stances: Praises Keitel and Dafoe casting; Respects Scorsese's persistence and Corman discipline; The film is now well regarded though not 'canonical Marty'
[speaker] Griffin Newman · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Calls Last Temptation his college-era favorite Scorsese; loves Scorsese's smaller 80s and the film's closing transcendence and Gabriel score. Cannot stand fundamentalist outrage at it. A sucker for casting trivia and Tom Cruise-silliness. · stances: Hot take: Last Temptation structurally mirrors New York, New York as a better version; Outrage over the film is stupid; it is respectful to Jesus; Scorsese's smaller 80s work beats his later baroque phases
[bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)
[bits] Blank Check: The box office game (Guessing the film's opening weekend and what it was up against); The sung theme ("Blank Check with Griffin and David", sung; the transcriber garbles it)
[bits] The Rewatchables: Apex Mountain (The moment a star peaks; where on the mountain a performance sits); Who Won the Movie (The hosts name the person who came out of the film best off); The Ebert review (Roger Ebert's original review and star rating read aloud. Ebert is cited, never on the show); Casting what-ifs (Who was almost cast, or who should have been); Most rewatchable scene (The scene each host would stop on while flipping channels); Aged best / aged worst (What holds up and what does not); Picking Nits (The little things in a film the hosts love that they don't think totally work: the nits); Double feature (The film each host would pair it with; a programming pick)

Recommend three to six films, and only films that appear in these lines. A series, a TV film, or a franchise counts too when a line recommends it or pairs it with Halloween (1978); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Halloween (1978) itself. For each one, give one short reason in your own words and say whose reason it is: the show, named exactly as the brackets name it, and the speaker when the line names one (an "unknown" speaker is just the show). If the lines are thin, say so plainly rather than stretching them.

Keep a contrast a contrast. When a line sets two films apart, the reason is how they differ; never turn it into a way they're alike. A line with ⇒ puts the source first and what drew on it second, and one marked "the maker said so" is still the host reporting it: say who said it, and never state an influence as fact.

You know only what's on these lines. Add no fact they don't state: not who directed a film, not what kind of film it is, not when it came out, unless a line says so. Say nothing about the store or how anything rents here.

Talk the way a clerk talks to a customer at the counter: plain text, titles written plainly with no asterisks or other markup, no headings, no lists of more than six, no JSON.